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early july i spent a couple of hours browsing top-level domains (TLDs) in search for my own “meme” domain, as some of my friends have had theirs which i always envied. for example stortissvatnet.no by @polsevev , which basically is norwegian for BigDickLake.no lol. reading up on the different TLDs i noticed how not all TLDs are easy to buy. one of the domains i was maybe thinking of getting was…
Back in 2024 some friends and I discovered Drift Mania and we quickly became obsessed, this was of course during our exam period lol. It was like a month old, and the current speedrun times at that time were noted in an Google Excel sheet that the developer had set up (if I remember correctly). We played a lot, hunting for the WR speedrun times for the A1 level, and even managed to become like top…
Last month I had a chat with Tim about his RSS feed only serving his sixteen most recent posts, as I thought this might be a bug and not a feature. I stood corrected as it was meant to be, since it is usual to have a limited amount there. This got me intrigued as I had no clue about there being some sort of RSS etiquette for us webmasters. That was until I found the RSS Advisory Board , which has…
on rejecting convenience, going analog, and algoholishm
currently at work, i'm working on open sourcing a plugin we've maintained for a while now for Moodle . this plugin was at first only soft-forked into our Moodle repo, so the history from previous work doesn't exist. we wanted to share it as our way of giving back to the community, and this led to the conclusion that we should also preserve our commit history for the past 3-4 years of the small…
a love letter to the personal website
on ai slop, notification-addiction, friendships, and digital hygiene
During fall 2024, I hosted my first Wii-lympics. "Wii-lympics? What's that?" you probably think. Well, it is a fun, small, epic competition that you can host yourself at home as long as you've got a Nintendo Wii with a few of the classic games - Mario Kart & Wii Sports! I set up five different branches, as you'll see below, and created a set of rules and guidelines for it. For each branch you…
I know it's like a month+ since FOSDEM was (again), but I got the famous FOSDEM-flu and have been busy aswell.. BUT, finally I've had the time to finish this post! New year, new FOSDEM ! This year we were a group of eight friByters' travelling to FOSDEM together this year, so the tradition has officially become a thing (i hope) :party: This year I started my travels from Oslo as I had been in a…
dear open source community, please don't hide your community behind walled gardens. the past few years, more and more communities have moved their communities to platforms like Discord and Slack. many have valid arguments for this move, e.g. "it's one of the easiest platforms to use", "people don't use IRC channels/Matrix/XMPP/etc.", "lower friction/barrier to entry for users", and so on. starting…
i've recently thought about maybe going no gui on my laptop, basically just using tui apps. of course this wouldn't work for all things, like visiting bank websites and such - but you get the point. this is because i kinda wanna see how much of my laptop usage can be from the terminal instead of using gui apps all the time. maybe a future post for this about me testing it for a month? :eyes:…
re: sayonara spotify
Feeling overwhelmed by the cramped city center of the modern web ? I've got the perfect antidote for you: RSS - also known as Really Simple Syndication . RSS, for those who don't know it, is a webfeed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format .[^1] Below is a "less heavy" explanation by Tim in his post "How I RSS" [^2]: "You can…
After a lot of recent regex problems at work I feel like I've finally gotten a little hang of it, well at least the C# and ECMAScript flavours. But, one thing a colleague of mine and I discussed was the problem of all the edgecases you get when dealing with all the different rules/laws. Say for example a new business in Norway is going to be registered. It would need to send in an Altinn form with…
three weeks ago I decided to try out the Zed IDE after hearing good stuff about it from friends and colleagues. using it while working has been pretty nice so far, it feels super slick, but for some reason I've "struggled" a bit while coding in C#. when I've got C# files open I've gotten the following error: Language server error: omnisharp oneshot canceled -- stderr-- A fatal error occurred. The…
I write my notes in markdown and keep it version-controlled using git . And this week I needed a note I knew I had some years ago, but I couldn't find it. It drove me nuts, but then I remembered this is exactly why I use git for my notes! So, if you're like me, and have accidentally deleted something - either it be a whole file or parts of a file - and want to recover it, you can use git to search…